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| Rear Admiral Robert Burnett greeting King George VI of the United Kingdom aboard HMS Belfast, Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 15 Aug 1943 | British admirals Irvine Glennie, Louis Hamilton, Robert Burnett (shaking hand), and Henry Moore with King George VI and Admiral Bruce Fraser of the United Kingdom aboard HMS Duke of York, Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 16 Aug 1943 |
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| King George VI of the United Kingdom aboard HMS London at Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 16 Aug 1943 | United States Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox greeting Naval officers aboard USS Ranger at Scapa Flow, Scotland, 21 Sep 1943. |
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| WAAF Leading Aircraftwoman M. Wishart taking a weather reading from a thermohygrograph, RAF Pitreavie Castle, Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom, Dec 1943 | British WAAF member and an American non-commissioned officer recording the arrival of an American aircraft in the operations room of US Air Transport Command at Prestwick Airport, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1944 |
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| King George VI aboard HMS Howe with Captain C. H. L. Woodhouse and Admiral John Tovey, Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom, date unknown | King George VI inspecting HMS Howe, Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom, date unknown, photo 1 of 2 |
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| King George VI inspecting HMS Howe, Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom, date unknown, photo 2 of 2 | Louis Mountbatten (with Colonel G. P. Paul) inspecting officers and men at a Combined Operations training base at Dundonald, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1940s |
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| WAAF flight mechanics pulling chocks away from a Miles Martinet TT Mark I target tug of No. 289 Squadron RAF at RAF Turnhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1943-1945 | WAAF members plotting a course in an office at Prestwick Airport, Scotland, United Kingdom, 1944 |
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| Sailors aboard the Norwegian destroyer HNoMS Stord reloading the ship’s torpedo tubes at Rosyth, Scotland, United Kingdom, Jan 1944. | Survivors of sunken German battleship Scharnhorst disembarking a British warship at Scapa Flow, Scotland, United Kingdom, 2 Jan 1944 |
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| Missing port rail of Norwegian destroyer HNoMS Stord, damaged in heavy seas during the Battle of the North Cape, Rosyth, Scotland, United Kingdom, 4 Jan 1944. Note depth charge launchers. | Norwegian destroyer HNoMS Stord at Rosyth, Scotland, United Kingdom, 4 Jan 1944 after the Battle of the North Cape. Note churning water from Stord’s reversed port screw. |
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| Norwegian destroyer HNoMS Stord’s commanding officer LtCdr Skule Storheill (left) and his first lieutenant Lt T. Holthe aboard the Stord in Rosyth harbor, Scotland, United Kingdom, 4 Jan 1944 | Chariot manned torpedo with crew, Rothesay, Scotland, United Kingdom, 3 Mar 1944, photo 1 of 3 |
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| Chariot manned torpedo with crew, Rothesay, Scotland, United Kingdom, 3 Mar 1944, photo 2 of 3 | Chariot manned torpedo with crew, Rothesay, Scotland, United Kingdom, 3 Mar 1944, photo 3 of 3 |
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